Will Anime Die Out In The West In 50 Years?

It's no secret that Anime has grown in popularity over the last decade. When anime was first broadcast in western society in the late 90's it sparked a new interest in people and formed new communities.

Anime with it's unique style had taken the world by storm and remain so through out the early 2000s. I like to refer to this era as the golden age of Anime. Jumping to present day Anime is still very strong and active. Although Anime doesn't have the support it once had from western television broadcasters, the community kept on building.

One topic that rarely discussed is the future of Anime as a whole. As the years roll by, will Anime remain intact in western society ? This one is a hard question but ill try to answer it.

First we gotta discuss Anime distribution, since we have no longer a viable outlet to watch Anime on mainstream television, One solution to this is that we buy DVD's from companies that import and dub Anime such as Funimation.

Next is online streaming, Crunchy Roll , Hulu and Netflix are the top when it comes to licensed streaming. Arguably the best method of watching anime such it's great quality and offer Anime professionally subbed but comes at a reasonable price cost.

Lastly is third party streaming which a lot of people get their Anime fix from. Third party meaning that the company does not in fact have any ties with the company that is in charge of the Anime series and usually don't have the rights to publish their work.

Now if say Funimation stopped importing dubbed/subbing Anime, a huge asset would be lost, but wouldn't be the end of the world. If people that used third party streams outweigh the people who use licensed streams such as Crunchy roll, then yeah there would be problems because their service would go bankrupted. Since this is are primary source of linkage to  Japanese Anime everything would start to break apart. Many are picky and don't like using third party streams and i say majority of people are in favor and do use Crunchy Roll and the other licensed streams . So if it were gone I think many would just stop watching instead using third party streams.

So it's important to support sites such as Crunchy roll because it also supports the artist which brings us more Anime.

Now comes content.

Every year dozens of anime is produced and released. I say for every 10 anime 1 popular that draws in new attention. Creating Content is getting really hard nowadays also, since a significant amount of ideas are already used. So people may say " This seems like that other Anime I just watched" and eventually just stop cause they think nothing new is coming out. As long as people find a few that are right for them i doubt they would stop watching.


Now i wanna end this article with me saying i am a fan of Anime I would love to see Anime thrive and go as far as it can!  As long as people watch and share, Anime will never die! But you gotta keep in mind, like the old saying goes "Everything has a beginning and a end".